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mélange

[mey-lahnzh, -lahnj] / meɪˈlɑ̃ʒ, -ˈlɑndʒ /


melange


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Business leaders and politicians gathered in Zug one May evening to debate the referendum at a polished event space perched above the city, a manicured mélange of medieval buildings and glass-and-steel high-rises.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Though competent, the flashy computed-generated effects give the impression of being recycled instead of uniquely designed for this lackluster mélange.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2024

Teams are a mélange of locals and expats — some with college and minor league experience.

From Seattle Times Jun. 6, 2024

The production is conceived, directed and choreographed by Kate Prince in a mélange of hip-hop and contemporary styles, and the dancers in her company, ZooNation, are technically amazing and totally committed.

From New York Times May 2, 2024

The scene at the outdoor chess tables in Washington Square Park was a mélange of urban vitality and color.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

“If I say ‘Here’s a blank canvas, write me such and such,’ would that just be a melange of millions of other scripts?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2025

The sprawling festival, which features hundreds of acts and a colourful, unending melange of art, has long advocated sustainability and was once home to one of the UK's largest private solar power plants.

From Reuters Jun. 24, 2023

Von Rumpel expected a melange of fear and indignation and hunger, but Dupont sits upright.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

There were salads, grain bowls, and hummus-based mélanges of varying quality—occasionally delightful but usually somewhere between pretty good and meh.

From Slate Sep. 10, 2020

His Combines—kitchen-sink mélanges of painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, including “Monogram”—absorbed that movement’s aesthetic breakthroughs, in dispersed composition and eloquent paint-handling, while subverting its frequently macho pathos.

From The New Yorker May 22, 2017

“Lavender Ghost,” with its jagged shape and surface, is a good example of the elegant, fragmentlike mélanges that result.

From New York Times Jun. 27, 2013

The 35 paintings and related gouaches at the Grey are amazingly weird metaphorical mélanges — rich with seductive painterly touches — that don’t mince images.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2012

Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics—there a kettle of duodecimo mélanges.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various




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